The EU's Assembly of Regional and Local Representatives Statistics and the Committee of the Regions: assessing, monitoring, benchmarking. Luxembourg, 30.9/1.10 2013 Daniele Berno, Directorate Horizontal Policies and Networks, Committee of the Regions The EU's Assembly of Regional and Local Representatives  

The CoR and its prerogatives established in 1992, first plenary session in 1994 empowered in 1997 and 2001 reinforced by the Lisbon treaty link between EU Institutions and EU citizens closing the gaps on European integration the regional and local elected authorities (353 Members) represent the electorate’s concerns 70% of EU legislation has a direct regional or local impact 1992 Maastricht (establishment); 1997 Amsterdam (extension of CoR remits to 2/3 of EU policies; possibility to be consulted by the EP); 2001 Nice (underlines the democratic legitimacy by requiring that its members have a political mandate at a regional/local level); 2007 Lisbon (right to appeal to the Court of Justice).   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Regional Statistics and Rural Development Areas of competence The CoR has to be consulted throughout the legislative process involving the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union in the following areas: economic and social cohesion employment vocational training education and culture social policy health civil protection environment climate change energy trans-European networks transport   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Regional Statistics and Rural Development The Principles Subsidiarity - decisions in the EU must be taken as close as possible to the citizen, - the EU level must not take any action which could be carried out more efficiently by the national, regional or local authorities, - the CoR has the right to bring an action before the Court of Justice of the European Union if this principle is breached (Lisbon Treaty). Proximity - all levels of governance must be "close to the citizen", - transparency in the work of national, regional and local authorities is essential to ensure citizens’ participation in the democratic process. Partnership - the four levels of governance - EU, national, regional and local - cooperate closely to ensure good European governance, - these four levels of governance are indispensable and must be involved throughout the decision‑making process.   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Regional Statistics and Rural Development The Activities 6 plenary sessions a year more than 50 opinions a year on EU legislation: - opinions on legislative proposals on policy areas for which consultation is mandatory - prospective opinions on future European policies - prospective opinions on territorial impact assessment analysis on some European Commission proposals more than 40 stakeholders’ consultations each year more than 300 events a year - conferences, workshops, Open Days resolutions on topical political issues studies, publications & reports   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Territorial Impact Assessment (1) WHAT → to identify whether a policy option risks having a large asymmetric territorial impact (spatial approach: administrative/political levels; types of regions or areas; functional areas) WHY → to increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of the policy (reducing the costs for the most affected regions and/or mitigation measures) WHEN → in the case of 1) policies that explicitly targets specific regions or areas, or of 2) not evenly distributed issues HOW → qualitative approach, statistical description and projections, simulation of the impacts with models → tools: ESPON ARTS, QUICKScan,   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Territorial Impact Assessment (2) Different for each policy proposal Independant of policy proposal POLICIES REGIONS EXPOSURE TERRITORIAL SENSITIVITY TERRITORIAL IMPACT   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

CoR opinion on assessing territorial impacts no policy area should be excluded a priori from a possible territorial impact assessment; close link between territorial impact assessment, assessing impacts in general, and subsidiarity and proportionality auditing of new legislation at European level; early assessment of territorial impacts is meant to ensure that the local and regional level is involved, that spatial development is practicable, relevant and territorially linked, and that funds are deployed effectively; territorial impact assessment as an important part of Europe 2020 strategy; assessing territorial impact is a relevant part of territorial cohesion.   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

TIA as a part of territorial cohesion territorial cohesion is as a three-dimensional concept: Balanced territorial development: seeks to even out economic and social disparities between regions through structural support and the development of endogenous regional development potential; Territorial integration: commits European policy-makers to adopting an approach that is horizontally and vertically coherent as well as cross-sectorial when exercising their powers that have territorial implications; Territorial governance: requires that public, private and civil society stakeholders network locally to ensure that measures are effective;   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Europe 2020 and the CoR Europe 2020 Monitoring Platform: AIMS: 1) to support the diffusion of multilevel policymaking for growth and jobs by facilitating the exchange of information and good practices between local and regional policy makers; 2) to contribute to address challenges and obstacles, mainly by means of monitoring exercises at the territorial levels feeding into the CoR consultative activity. TOOLS: 1) website: http://cor.europa.eu/en/policies/growth-and-jobs/Pages/europe-2020.aspx 2) policy workshops 3) questionnaires and surveys 4) monitoring reports 5) thematic initiatives   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Assessing Europe 2020 at the regional level   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Europe 2020: trends at regional level   2007 – present Indicator (with EU Target) Regions improving as % of regions with data available Regions stagnating Regions declining Regions without data 75 % Employment rate among 20-64 year olds 17 7% 171 67% 67 26% Tertiary educational attainment 235 94% 16 6% 0% 21 At most 10% early school leavers 161 39 16% 33 3% of GDP R&D spending 68 69% 11 11% 20 20% 173 20 million fewer people at risk of poverty and social exclusion** 35 30% 25 21% 58 49% 154 * Trends are assessed by evaluating difference between start and end year, they are be positive or negative if the average annual change is greater than 1 % in absolute terms. If it is between 0 % and 1 % in absolute terms, it is supposed that no significant change has occurred (=stagnation). ** Last trend in the table calculated on the basis 2005-2007, due to limited data availability   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Europe 2020: data availability at NUTS 2 level Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 GHG emissions 0% Share of renewable energy 7% 8% 9% Early school leavers 71% 79% 85% 74% 90% 89% 92% 94% 93% Tertiary educational attainment 86% 88% 96% Employment rate 91% 100% R&D spending 38% 40% 48% 69% 52% 78% 57% 87% 37% 2% Poverty and social exclusion 1% 15% 41% 51% 56% 63% 54% 4% Energy efficiency   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Measuring territorial cohesion (1) source: elaboration on DG Regio and Eurostat data   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Measuring territorial cohesion (2) source: elaboration on DG Regio and Eurostat data   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Statistics at the CoR: needs and challenges consistency relatively large lag time need of availability at all sub-national levels geographical and temporal coverage data availability on all EU 2020 headings explaining cause and effect checking the correlation of multiple variables   30/9-1/10 2013 Working Party on Regional Statistics and Rural Development

Thank you for your attention. comments at: Daniele.Berno@cor.europa.eu visits at: www.cor.europa.eu The EU's Assembly of Regional and Local Representatives